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* ShoutOut: As Marsh is flipping through the channels of a radio, he lands on one playing "modern music from a [[Music/TheBeatles group out of Liverpool.Liverpool]]." He doesn't think much of it and flips to a Big Band station.
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America Wins The War has been renamed because of Missing Supertrope Syndrome. Misuse and Zero Context Examples will be cut.
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* AmericaWinsTheWar - averted. America is barely even mentioned in the books. Instead of a superpower, it's suffering racial turmoil and a 40-year depression.
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* ShoutOut: As Marsh is flipping through the channels of a radio, he lands on one playing "modern music from a group out of Liverpool." He doesn't think much of it and flips to a Big Band station.
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* ColdWar - between the enormously successful U.S.S.R. and a rather diminished British Empire.
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* ColdWar UsefulNotes/ColdWar - between the enormously successful U.S.S.R. and a rather diminished British Empire.
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* BalanceOfPower: The Soviet Union controls everything up to the English Channel, and has continued to develop the captured Willenskräfte technology. The United States is torn by internal strife and economic depression. The only thing keeping the Soviets from conquering the British Empire is the warlocks. Who are being killed off.
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: After handing over the location of the warlocks to Will and turning down their offer of asylum in the Soviet Union, he suffers a near fatal accident as the Soviet's believe he's the last warlock on British soil.
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* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: MakeItLookLikeAnAccident:
** The Soviet assassin uses his IntangibleMan abilities to reach into a warlock's chest and palpitate his heart, giving him the symptoms of a heart attack.
** After handing over the location of the warlocks toWill his KGB contact and turning down their offer of asylum in the Soviet Union, he Will suffers a near fatal traffic accident as the Soviet's believe he's the last warlock on British soil.
** The Soviet assassin uses his IntangibleMan abilities to reach into a warlock's chest and palpitate his heart, giving him the symptoms of a heart attack.
** After handing over the location of the warlocks to
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* JustOneMan: Gretel needs to keep both Marsh and Will alive for her plan to work.
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* JustOneMan: Gretel needs to keep both Marsh and Will alive (throughout WW2 as well) for her plan to work.
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* OneLastJob: Klaus agrees to help Marsh in exchange for a new identity far from her sister.
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* FakingTheDead: Will after his house blows up.
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* JustOneMan: Gretel needs to keep both Marsh and Will alive for her plan to work.
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* OnlyOneMan: Gretel needs to keep both Marsh and Will alive for her plan to work.
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* CarFu: With no other option, [[spoiler:Marsh rams the supersoldier while he's using his fire powers, melting half his car but killing him.]]
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* GasLeakCoverup{{EMP}}: Milkweed turn Will's house into an improvised EMP bomb, among other booby traps. Unfortunately the batteries used by the Soviet supersoldiers are hardened against EMP.
* GasLeakCoverup: Milkweed know a Soviet assassin with supernatural powers is going to murder Will in his home, so they evacuate the entire street to avoid witnesses and collateral damage under the gas leak trick. When the assassin does show up, he's disguised as a National Gas repairman. When the entire house and half the street burns up thanks to the assassin PlayingWithFire, the government has a ready-made explanation.
* GasLeakCoverup: Milkweed know a Soviet assassin with supernatural powers is going to murder Will in his home, so they evacuate the entire street to avoid witnesses and collateral damage under the gas leak trick. When the assassin does show up, he's disguised as a National Gas repairman. When the entire house and half the street burns up thanks to the assassin PlayingWithFire, the government has a ready-made explanation.
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* AdvancingWallOfDoom: [[spoiler:As the Enochian's start to destroy the world.]]
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* TheChessmaster: The full extent of Gretel's machinations are finally revealed. For example, she drove Heike to suicide in book one [[spoiler:''just so she could get a glass jar at Arzamas-16'']].
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* CassandraTruth: Marsh ignores Will's warnings about the Enochians. Pembroke ignores Marsh's warnings about Gretel. [[spoiler:Ironically Gretel engineers Pembroke's death because only Marsh is driven enough to use the Enochians to kill directly.]]
* TheChessmaster: The full extent of Gretel's machinations are finally revealed. For example, she drove Heike to suicide in book one [[spoiler:''just so she could get a glass jar atArzamas-16'']].Arzamas-16''. Although it's no news that she sent German bombers to kill Marsh's daughter, we finally get the reason -- going back in time is the only way Marsh can save her life.]]
* ChekhovsGun: Loads of them thanks to Gretel's precognition.
* TheChessmaster: The full extent of Gretel's machinations are finally revealed. For example, she drove Heike to suicide in book one [[spoiler:''just so she could get a glass jar at
* ChekhovsGun: Loads of them thanks to Gretel's precognition.
* GasLeakCoverup
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: Reinhardt, aka Junkman has spent years scavenging electronic components in a desperate attempt to reconstruct the batteries and regain his Willenskräfte.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: After handing over the location of the warlocks to Will and turning down their offer of asylum in the Soviet Union, he suffers a near fatal accident as the Soviet's believe he's the last warlock on British soil.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Oh hell yes. [[spoiler:Though Gretel has foreseen that ''all'' timelines result in the Enochians destroying humanity.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Oh hell yes. [[spoiler:Though Gretel has foreseen that ''all'' timelines result in the Enochians destroying humanity.]]
* OnlyOneMan: Gretel needs to keep both Marsh and Will alive for her plan to work.
* TheSoulless: John Marsh
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Marsh refuses to go back in time so that Gretel will die with everyone else, but she already anticipated this back in WW2.]]
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* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame - Marsh does ''not'' like getting compliments from Gretel.
Gretel.
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* AmericaWinsTheWar - averted. America is barely even mentioned in the books.
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* AmericaWinsTheWar - averted. America is barely even mentioned in the books. Instead of a superpower, it's suffering racial turmoil and a 40-year depression.
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* SpeakInUnison[=/=]VoiceOfTheLegionSpeakInUnison[=/=]VoiceOfTheLegion: [[spoiler:Marsh's son after being taken over by the Eidolons.]]
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* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Literally, for the new generation of British warlocks.
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Not a spoiler.
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* ForbiddenChekhovsGun: Using the Eidolons to directly take a human life.
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* ForbiddenChekhovsGun: Using GodzillaThreshold: Marsh [[spoiler:invoking the Eidolons to directly take a human life.kill the Soviet infiltrators.]]
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* [[spoiler:AlternateTimeline: Gretel's goal is revealed to be to create a new timeline in which she and the rest of humanity are spared from the Eidolons.]]
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The second book of ''TheMilkweedTriptych''.
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The second book of ''TheMilkweedTriptych''.
''TheMilkweedTriptych'', preceded by ''Literature/BitterSeeds'' and followed by ''Literature/NecessaryEvil''.
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* [[spoiler:ApocalypseHow: When Britain comes under attack from Soviet supersoldier infiltrators, Marsh orders the Eidolons to kill them directly. This gives the Eidolons the foothold they need to wipe out humanity.]]
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* CreepyChild: The British child warlocks.
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* LanguageOfMagic - Enochian
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* LanguageOfMagic - Enochian Enochian
* OnePersonOnePower: [[spoiler:As the British learn a bit too late, this is not true for the Soviet version of Westarp's supersoldiers.]]
* OnePersonOnePower: [[spoiler:As the British learn a bit too late, this is not true for the Soviet version of Westarp's supersoldiers.]]
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* TheChessmaster: The full extent of Gretel's machinations are finally revealed. For example, she drove Heike to suicide in book one [[spoiler:''just so she could get a glass jar at Arzamas-16'']].
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[[caption-width-right:263:Basically? ItGotWorse.]]
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[[caption-width-right:263:Basically? ItGotWorse.Things get worse from here.]]
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality - as it turns out, Gretel.
* {{Jerkass}} - both Marsh and Will, albeit for really justified reasons.
* ItGotWorse - you thought things had gotten bad for our heroes in ''BitterSeeds''? That was a picnic.
* {{Jerkass}} - both Marsh and Will, albeit for really justified reasons.
* ItGotWorse - you thought things had gotten bad for our heroes in ''BitterSeeds''? That was a picnic.
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* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame - Marsh does
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* BadassNormal - Marsh, even 20 years older and out of shape.
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* PlayingWithFire - the Soviet psychic assassin
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''Someone is killing Britain's warlocks''.
''Twenty-two years after the Second World War, a precarious balance of power maintains the peace between Great Britain and the USSR. For decades, the warlocks have been all that stand between the British Empire and the Soviet Union-- a vast domain stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the shores of the English Channel. But now each death is another blow to Britain's security''.
''Meanwhile, a brother and sister escape from a top-secret research facility deep behind the Iron Curtain. Once subjects of a twisted Nazi experiment to imbue ordinary humans with extraordinary abilities, then prisoners of war in the vast Soviet effort to reverse engineer the Nazi technology, they head for England''.
''Because that's where former spy Raybould Marsh lives. And Gretel, the mad seer, has plans for him''.
''As Marsh is drawn back into the world of Milkweed, he discovers that Britain's darkest acts didn't end with the war. And as he strives to protect Queen and country, he's forced to confront his own willingness to accept victory at any cost.''
The second book of ''TheMilkweedTriptych''.
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[[caption-width-right:263:Basically? ItGotWorse.]]
''Someone is killing Britain's warlocks''.
''Twenty-two years after the Second World War, a precarious balance of power maintains the peace between Great Britain and the USSR. For decades, the warlocks have been all that stand between the British Empire and the Soviet Union-- a vast domain stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the shores of the English Channel. But now each death is another blow to Britain's security''.
''Meanwhile, a brother and sister escape from a top-secret research facility deep behind the Iron Curtain. Once subjects of a twisted Nazi experiment to imbue ordinary humans with extraordinary abilities, then prisoners of war in the vast Soviet effort to reverse engineer the Nazi technology, they head for England''.
''Because that's where former spy Raybould Marsh lives. And Gretel, the mad seer, has plans for him''.
''As Marsh is drawn back into the world of Milkweed, he discovers that Britain's darkest acts didn't end with the war. And as he strives to protect Queen and country, he's forced to confront his own willingness to accept victory at any cost.''
The second book of ''TheMilkweedTriptych''.
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